#our

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#please #think #wrongly #you #yourself

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#body #causes #change #changed #changes

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#life #new #new way #something #suddenly

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#course #heroes #i #london #never

I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#course #heroes #i #london #never

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#capable #first-rate #know #like #love

You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever. ↗

— Michael Lesy

#face #faced #forever #front #levity

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#get #good #great #head #holding

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#belief #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #diversity

It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends. ↗

— Jared Leto

#celebrity #couple #dog #friends #going